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I don’t appreciate just how often the game tries to railroad you, it sells itself as a game where “You’re the AI, make your own choices” and yet every objective leads directly into the next and if you’re not speedrunning it then it becomes a slog. There’s rarely more than one way to achieve a specific objective so all you’re really choosing is which linear path to focus on and most objectives require you to also progress other linear paths so you just end up doing them all anyway. The game just feels like a race to do what the developer thinks you want to do but you’re also not allowed to do it at your own pace.

A solid example of this would be one particular circumstance where a building has a “Protection” metric based on your nearby units but then has a condition where the game specifically says no matter what your protection metric is you’re gonna have endlessly respawning enemies regardless. This sucked to deal with and the majority of missions are just “Run around the city clicking things while enemies endlessly respawn”. The game needs more than just endlessly respawning enemies railroading you down a pre-ordained tree of actions. Another example of railroading would be a sudden brick wall where you require 400 engineering skill to progress. This is bad because it blocked off the main objective I went into the game looking to achieve, I did end up acquiring that but only after an hour of grinding before finally discovering to get the last 60 skill I had to complete a totally unrelated questline. Forest Heroes

What’s the point of these narrative concepts if I just end up having to do them all anyway? What’s the point of upgrading androids the way you want to upgrade them if you can be hit by a brick wall preventing you from progressing because of choices you made hours ago? The game is let down by just how linear it is narratively and mechanically because this forces it to force you to do things a certain way. Instead of static, unchangeable upgrades to androids it should reward you with generic “capacity” or similar for upgrades on androids that you can then re-allocate in the future as necessary, an android is just a robot body, surely being able to swap parts is part and parcel of that, even if it takes a few turns to take effect.